Comic Books 2013: Truth, Justice & the American Gay

Poor Sgt. Rock. Were he around today, the grizzled infantryman
who’s WWII combat exploits thrilled a generation of boys might find himself sitting
through sexual orientation sensitivity training in the post-Don’t Ask-Don’t
Tell Army. And he’d be hard pressed to recognize his old DC Comics area of
operations.

Like the rest of American pop culture, comic books have
increasingly included pro-gay propaganda pieces aimed at the children and young
adults who read them. Not to be outdone by DC’s super-heroic sexual diversity,
Marvel released a comic a few weeks ago where “Wolverine
and Hercules share a gay kiss,” as reported by The Huffington Post.

Gay characters began appearing in comics in the early 90s
but this agenda-based tactic has been employed more frequently in the past 10
years. In 2006, an Advocate story titled “How Gay is Superman?” led the way for
the “turn
your favorite superhero characters gay” trend. Since then, comic book
writers have been aggressively promoting politics in their stories.

On the other hand, defenders of traditional marriage are cast a villains every bit as evil as the Joker or Lex Luther.

A few weeks ago, gay activists threw a fit when they found
out that Mormon science fiction author Orson Scott Card would contribute to an
upcoming Superman comic. The gay activist group All Out even started a petition calling
for the popular author to be sacked after DC Comics announced he
would author the first chapter. The digital comic will be released in April
but the petition has 16,000 signatures already.

Card is most famous for his young adult fantasy classic
“Ender’s Game” published in 1985, also to be adapted in an upcoming film. Since
a contentious Salon interview in 2000 and a subsequent essay in 2004,
where Card made a case that gay marriage would be harmful to society, gay
activists have been hounding him as a “homophobe” and “bigot,”
simply for affirming the traditional understanding of marriage.

The Huffington
Post reported scathingly that Card was “anti-gay” and “homophobic” for his
prior involvement with the traditional marriage non-profit The National
Organization for Marriage and for past comments he made coming against the
notion of gay marriage.

Unsurprisingly, there’s no public uproar or call for writers
to be fired for pushing their gay agenda, because what press this gaying of
comics has gotten has been favorable.

At this rate, it’s not unimaginable that there’s a Sgt, Rock
#45 in the works – a modern update in which the battle-hardened Iraq/Afghanistan
vet and his life-partner save the Academy Awards from a terrorist attack.

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